CLASS INSECTA: OEDEE CgLEOPTBRA. 



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bark at the roots of trees, and their metamorphosis goes on 

 within the trunk. 

 Silphidae. — The Burying-beetles dig underneath smal] 



Mrj. Sn. 



NecropU^ms veetigStor burying a Mouse. 



dead animals — mice, birds, etc. — and soon bury them as pro 

 vision for their young. 



Cerambycidae. — The Long-horns have filiform, recurved 

 antennae, often much longer than the body. Their eggs are 

 laid in crevices of bark, and the larvae bore into the hardest 

 wood, oftentimes destroying whole forests. To this family 

 belongs the destructive "apple-tree borer."* 



Scolytidae. — The Bark-borers cause great devastation 

 among trees by digging, just beneath the bark, radiating 



* To the family Chrysomelidse belongs the Striped Squash Beetle (JHabro^^xi 

 HUdta), a yellow bug; which attacks the vines as soon as they are up. 



